A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK SEMI-EGGSHELL SOUP PLATE

YONGZHENG PERIOD

細節

A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK SEMI-EGGSHELL SOUP PLATE
YONGZHENG PERIOD
Finely enamelled with a seated lady before a table laden with scrolls and other scholar's objects, attended by two young children, one holding a ruyi sceptre, the cavetto alternating panels of scrolling lotus and dragons, the rim with flower cartouches on a cell-pattern ground
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diameter

來源

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 April 1998, lot 135
with David Currie

拍品專文

See W. B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, pl. 88, for the almost identical plate in the Salting Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and p. 53, where the author says the border design has "an effect of almost bewildering intricacy ... such a plate ... is a masterpiece, and shows an admirable fluency of line. These profuse but finely articulated designs reveal qualities of art of no mean order ...." Cf. Howard and Ayers, op. cit., vol. I, p. 163, pl. 149, and the example in the Mottahedeh collection, Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 166.